Overwatch's Weekly Brawls Suck Bawls

Overwatch's latest weekly Brawl is "Tanks Alot", which limits players to only being able to play tank characters. The Weekly Brawls always have some sort of interesting rule-set to them. But only playing tanks? Come on! Give me a break Blizzard. Last week it was only playing games on Eichenwalde because it was the new map. Not terribly exciting but still it was cool to be able to only play that map because it was new and fresh. "Other brawls have done things like restrict players to Genji and Hanzo (because they’re brothers and stuff), make everyone play support, or only be women characters." (Kotaku) Each Brawl is centered around a simple theme and that's that. The big exception to this was Lucio ball-which was like a sport. Rocket League anyone?

The thing is that these Brawl's aren't very fun and get old after a match or two. How can this be fun for an entire week when its lame after one match? Brawls seem to make the game feel more limited. I don't even play Brawls anymore because it feels like "regular Overwatch except you can't do this, that, or the other etc".

"To date, my favorite Overwatch brawl ever is the first: “Arcade.” There were no restrictions on heroes. There were no restrictions at all. Instead, everybody got double health, light speed ultimate charge, and quicker ability cooldowns. It was completely wild. It was like the Tasmanian Devil from Looney Tunes locked in a life-and-death battle with a thousand fireworks. No matter where you looked, bonkers shit was filling the screen." (Kotaku)

I remember that first Arcade Brawl where it was like a game with power ups and stuff and special things listed above. Now that was a fun time! They should do something like that. There's so much they could do to make Brawls fun again. One thing they could do is add a bunch of different power ups that do a bunch of different things, give the game an Unreal Tournament feel.

A lot of Overwatch players have been throwing out ideas for Brawls.

Blizzard does know that a lot of peeps aren't digging their Weekly Brawls. “This is fair feedback,” game director Jeff Kaplan wrote in a forum post today. “We feel the same way. We’re working on some new Brawl ideas now and hope to have some of them coming online this fall and early winter.”

Like I said I don't touch Brawls. Like ever. Until they stop being lame then I might start playing them again. Until then you'll see me in Competitive healing my team to victory.